//------------------------------// // Chapter 14- The four way clash for the semi finals // Story: Equestria Crossover Confusion 2 HFC- Time to Duel! // by Garfield23 //------------------------------// Whis stood in the centre of four duelists getting ready for a four way duel as Kaiba, Twilight, Yuesi and Yugi looked on smiling “It’s hard to believe it” Kaiba said as he looked at Joey “I remember when I did this set up in Battle city….to think Wheeler is the only one of the four from that duel in this duel” he began to laugh as a single tear leaked down his cheek “Fluttershy has also grown so much as a player” “YYYYeeeaaaahhhh” Yuesi said angrily, drawing out the word as if he was taking the piss, as he looked at Akiza and snarled “But it hardly seems fair what’s about to happen” “You mean the randomised cards?” Basil asked walking over shaking his head “At least they were allowed to draw out 100 cards and pick from them” “Yeah but Yuesi is right” Crow said as he looked at his deck “I mean there’s no other way to put it, Fluttershy has grown stronger but….it’s like the odds are stacked against her again” he then added “I just wish I still was in this tournament!” “You lost to Jack, fair and square” Yuesi said evenly as he then added “This duel is between Fluttershy, Jack, Akiza and Joey. So deal with it” “Yeah but rock, Paper, scissors and losing by paper!” Crow fumed and then added “I mean I could totally kick ass in that duel!” Twilight laughed and said “You did pick Rock” she then frowned and whispered “Good luck, Fluttershy” Whis turned his staff into a microphone as he coughed, once, then again and finally said into the microphone “Welcome to this four way tussle between legends! The king of the turbo duels, able to always able to put on a show and with the silver outfit, Jack Atlas!” Jack raised his fist high into the air and smirked “Now behind me, the element of Kindness, Animal friend and reformer of chaos, Fluttershy!” Fluttershy smiled and waved to Twilight “On my left the monkey of duels, the underdog and the restorer of sight, Joey Wheeler!” Joey waved around, looking really silly and causing Kaiba to face palm, groaning “And last but not least the rose of a duelist, the witch of New Domino and queen of plants, Akiza Izinski” Akiza didn’t move but did smile at Yusei. “Man, I can’t believe no one from Duel Academy made it to the finals” Jaden said as he looked at his hands and groaned “Were we really the worst?” “Not really” Beerus said sitting next to Jaden as he chewed on Popcorn “We did have the option to get more duellists from other timelines but Whis and I couldn’t stand that Yuma, brat” he offered Jaden some popcorn and added “You and your friends did fine…it just wasn’t good enough…but we still appreciate your help” Jaden smiled and added “Man, Yuma must be terrible” Beerus nodded and Jaden ate some popcorn “You know Pizza would be awesome” “Whis! Pizza!” Beerus said as he threw the popcorn away. “Just a second my lord!” Whis responded as he then turned to the audience “So this duel is like the duel in Battle city! With four duelists and this duel will decide the duels for the semi finals!” he then drew four cards “I have four cards, now time to decide the order of this duel!” he threw the cards into the air and flew up grabbing one “Right Joey first” he grabbed a second “Fluttershy next” a third one was grabbed “Akiza” and finally a fourth card “Then Jack!” he then landed and added “Also bear in mind none of you can attack on your first turns! So prepare to duel!” The four drew their opening hands and Joey said “This is it” he looked at his hand and smiled “Alright I’ll set two cards face down and then summon Armoured Lizard in attack mode!” he looked at Fluttershy and yelled “Goodluck!” “Right” Fluttershy mumbled drawing a card to begin her turn “I summon…” all the monsters in her hand…they were all animals? That was cruel, what did cute little animals ever do to deserve a duel like this? It wasn’t fair, all the cards she’d gotten had been formed into a deck by Whis, saying he was doing her a favour “I don’t understand?” she didn’t want to summon any of them “I…Summon..” she couldn’t…she wouldn’t but then she had to win “I summon…Crystal Beast Topaz Tiger!” “About time” the tiger said turning his head as he was summoned “I was growing board” “Why did I expect anything different?” Fluttershy groaned “I set one card face down” Akiza drew a card saying “About time! I summon…um…this is different” her monsters weren’t plants at all but instead a pile of machines “I summon Giga tech wolf in defence mode and set three cards facedown!” Jack drew his card and said “I summon Battle Ox in attack mode! I then end my turn” Jack was depressed all the cards in his hand were monsters. He then looked at the monsters on the field and said “Hang on! These are all real cards!” Yugi nodded and said “Yeah that’s weird…normally the cards that we’re given are weird cards” he then turned to Whis who smiled “You have something up your sleeve don’t you?” Whis laughed and said “Well their decks do contain one…um…weird card and the idea is...well they must each summon the card or be disqualified!” Twilight felt the blood drain from her face, so if Fluttershy couldn’t summon the monster that could be anywhere in her deck and protect her life points until it was done they’d be out of chances “Fluttershy! You have to summon it!” Fluttershy nodded as Joey gave Twilight the thumbs up “Don’t worry, Twilight…I’m about to summon mine!” Joey said as he then added “It’ll allow us all to summon our needed monsters!” Akiza and Jack smiled in response as Joey drew a card “Ah….going to have to wait a bit...” he looked at his hand but said “Let’s see, I summon Giant Solider of Stone in defence mode!” he smiled at Fluttershy “Your move!” “Um right…I summon this Chrystal Beast Cobalt Eagle!” Fluttershy said after drawing a card and smiled as the eagle from the card gave her a smile “Right! Attack Topaz! Get Akiza’s Wolf!” Topaz tiger nodded and charged forward but Akiza smiled sadly “I activate my trap card Magic Arm shield!” the shield grabbed Jack’s Battle Ox “Forgive me” “No need!” Joey said as he activated a trap “I activate the trap Reinforcements!” the card raised Topaz tiger’s attack to 2100 and as it’s claws clashed with the axe of the battle ox, the axe gave causing the battle ox to roar in pain and fall to the ground “Sorry Akiza” Akiza’s lifepoints dropped to 3600. Fluttershy suddenly snapped “I don’t need you to baby me! You have to let me make my own mistakes!” she knew she had grown and for Joey to save her was nothing short of insulting “Please…don’t help me next time” “She’s right Joey” Atem suddenly said from the side lines “You didn’t like it back in battle city, so don’t do it to her, Fluttershy has earned her place in this final and you need to show her respect” Yusei then said “The fact you helped her there was nothing short of disrespectful conduct” Joey nodded as Fluttershy saw her opening “Cobalt eagle attack Jack!” suddenly as the eagle flew to Jack, Armoured Lizard jumped in front of the attack, the lizard bit down on the eagle’s wing joint, destroying it and dropped Fluttershy’s life points by 100 point “Thank you” Joey nodded “My cobalt Eagle isn’t gone though” the Chrystal gem appeared at her feet as she spoke “I end my turn!” Akiza drew a card and said “I sacrifice my Giga tech wolf and summon Machine King!” the wolf howled as it was sacrificed for the machine king, which appeared and aimed it’s fist at the Armoured Lizard “Attack Fluttershy’s Topaz tiger with jet punch!” the Machine King switched targets and fired the attack, the tiger jumped to avoid the attack but the fist came back striking the tiger in the back. Fluttershy’s life points dropped to 3200 “I end my turn” “My move!” Jack declared as he drew a card and groaned “I start by special summoning Cyber Dragon and then I play the spell card monster reborn! To revive my Battle Ox!” the two monsters appeared ready for a fight but then Jack added “I’ll sacrifice them both to summon the Balrog!” suddenly flames roared to life in front of Jack and a terrifying monster clad in darkness and flames rose. Whis smiled “So Jack is safe” the Balrog’s attack power was registered at 3300 and then it’s effect activated “If I remember right when summoned the Balrog stops traps being activated in the same turn it attacks” “So if Jack doesn’t declare an attack….traps won’t work?!” Yugi said in horror but then smiled “I suspect Jack won’t be able to resist not attacking” but Yugi was wrong. Jack nodded to end his turn and Joey drew a card. “I sacrifice my two monsters to summon my warrior monster, Boromir the horn!” Joey declared as his warrior appeared his attack coming in at 100 but then the man drew a horn “When summoned, I can use his mighty horn to destroy all monsters on the field and then we all must pick a monster from our deck that equals the level of the strongest monster destroyed!” he smiled and then added “That monster is then summoned but if it’s destroyed, the attack points of the monster are taken out of our lifepoints!” “Akiza and Fluttershy will have to pick the monsters that they need to summon to not be disqualified!” Twilight said calmly as Fluttershy looked through her deck “Come on!” Fluttershy found it “I summon Rainbow Dash!” Twilight and Basil smiled as a rainbow streak flew down and landed next to Fluttershy, the pony version of Rainbow smiled at them but when she opened her mouth to speak no sound came fourth “Rainbow?” Rainbow shook her head and a single tear trickled from her eye as her attack points came in at 2500. “I Summon Jaeger Gipsy Danger in attack mode!” Akiza declared as the ground suddenly shook as the giant robot appeared, it slammed one giant fist into its other hand and it’s attack points sat at 3600 “When summoned I can summon another monster but it has to be weaker than 500 points attack points…so I summon Marshmallon in defence mode!” Jack’s chose “I summon Blue Eyes White Dragon!” the white Dragon flew out from the card and roared it’s battle cry. “I choose Black Luster Solider-Evoy of the beginning!” Joey declared as the monster appeared and drew it’s sword “I’ll then equip it with the spell card, Lighting Blade!” the attack of the monster jumped to 3800 points “Now sorry Jack! Black Luster Solider attack Blue eyes!” the sword slashed the monster in half and Jack’s life points took 3800 damage dropping them to 200 “Fluttershy forgive me….Black Luster Solider use your second attack to attack Rainbow Dash!” the damage done dropped Fluttershy’s life points to zero. “She worked so hard but it just wasn’t enough” Whis said and added “In the next round she’ll need to be more prepared” However Basil said “I get it! Jolly good show! Fluttershy’s trap…it could have stopped the attack but she can still activate it right?” Whis nodded and Basil laughed “Jolly good! Absolute pleasure to watch! Fluttershy has chosen her opponent already!” Akiza drew a card and said “I declare an attack on Jack!” but at that moment as the Jaeger launched it’s fist at Jack, two barrels appeared and the fist went in one and fired out the other one “What the?!” Akiza shouted in alarm as the fist headed back straight at her. “I activated my trap….Magic cylinder!” Fluttershy said as she smiled and Akiza smiled in return “I swore from the start that it’d be you and me in the semi-finals!” “Sounds like fun” Akiza said and watched as her life points dropped to zero. Whis flew forward and declared “The finals have been decided! In the first duel, Akiza will face off against Fluttershy and in the second Joey vs Jack!” there was a roar of approval from all who watched the duel “Now rest up! In two hours we’ll have the first duel!” Fluttershy walked over to Twilight but Mariah stepped in front of her and hugged her “Oh wow! That was so cool! You did really well! You didn’t even let defeat get you down!” she said as she pulled away and handed her a small pink object “Here…take this for good luck” Fluttershy looked down at the pink Beyblade “Well….we’re all rooting for you” “I’m not” Robert said bluntly as he walked up “She’s really weak” “Ignore him” Mariah said as Fluttershy blushed “Is it true?! That only a few days ago you didn’t know how to play, learned in less than a day and now you are in the finals?!” Fluttershy nodded and even Robert’s mouth dropped open in shock “WOW! That’s so cool!” “Um thank you but I got really lucky” Fluttershy mumbled. Robert laughed “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Tyson and being British overall….luck isn’t always unearned” he said as he added “Tyson didn’t always have tons of skill but luck certainly helped him beat me….also my country got really lucky a while back but I know that luck wasn’t unearned” Fluttershy nodded and mumbled “If you don’t mind…I need to talk to Twilight” she pushed past and looked into Twilight’s eyes “I hope I did the right thing” “It’s not what I think here” Twilight said calmly “It’s what you think!” Fluttershy looked at the Beyblade and then her deck “I can win!”